Polonius Advice Check

Who is Polonius?

• Hamlet's Cousin

• The Chief Advisor to the King

• the next in line to the throne

• Gertrude's Brother

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CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10

What is another word for precepts?

• directions

• expectations

• rules

• codes

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What is Polonius advising Laertes?

"Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar."

• Be friendly, but don't share too much.

• Be friendly to everyone.

• Be friendly, but don't swear.

• Keep very few friends or else you will gain a bad reputation.

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

What is Polonius advising Laertes?

"Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel..."

• Only befriend the strongest of men.

• Keep your tried and true friends close.

• Keep your distance from your enemies.

• Do not fight with your friends or you will lose them.

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

What is Polonius advising Laertes?

"Beware of entrance to a quarrel, but being in, bear't that the opposed may beware of thee."

• Don't enter a fight unless you think you can win.

• Don't start fights, just grin and bear an insult.

• When you are in a fight, fight like a bear.

• Don't start fights, but if you are in one, do not run away.

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Translate for 2023: "the apparel oft proclaims the man..."

• Others will judge your socio-economic level based on what you wear,

• Your clothing habit may take control of you.

• Others will judge your intelligence based on what you wear.

• If you apparel is cheap, others will avoid you.

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Translate for 2023: "For loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry."

• If you borrow money, you will lose your spouse.

• If you lend money, you will have more friends.

• If you lend money to a friend, the loan may weigh on you and you might lose the friend not receive the money back.

• You lost me at oft (but you should know it means often).

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Translate: "to thine own self be true..."

• Be your authentic self

• Be yourself always in private

• Be honest in your words.

• Do not get married.

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

What does Claudius advise Hamlet to do in this line:

"We pray you, throw to earth
 This unprevailing woe and think of us
 As of a father;"

• Please call me father now

• Bow down to earth when you greet your mother and I

• Stop mourning and think of us as your family

• I have no idea why you are crying

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

What does Queen Gertrude advise Hamlet to do:

"Do not forever with thy vailèd lids
 Seek for thy noble father in the dust."

• Do not close your eyes and cry.

• You father has returned to dust and he is not coming back

• Do not attempt to seek asnwers for your father's death

• Do not continue look down and away and grieve over your father's death

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3